So I think all my hard drives are gonna die

[Y2Ant]

Yeah, I dunno what to do atm. My C: drive made a click noise and hung up a couple times, found out it has 2 bad sectors, only thing that could have done it was a loose SATA interface cable. Booted up off my E drive (my spare) windows runs chkdisk on C, fixes some errors, back to normal.

Only accoring to the Seagate disk checker thingy, all three of my drives have file system errors that need repair, and my C and E drives (the ones with windows on them both) both have SMART errors, and should be considered likely to "fail at any time".

Will my PC be ok running with a C drive with a couple of bad sectors? Or should I expect my hard drive to die in the future? =/

[Bad Company]

Expect it to die in the near future.
Buy a new drive, download norton ghost (from a torrent site) Make a ghost boot disk(s) and ghost the old drive to your new better drive.

[Y2Ant]

Would a loose cable be enough to cause a bad sector?

[Bad Company]

nah, it's more than likely the drive is stuffed. Is it making any noises?

[Y2Ant]

no, it seems to be perfectly fine.

the only time it would make one click noise was when it hung up, because thats when its accessing the bad sector or something.

I haven't done anything physically to the drive, havent opened my PC in months, just saw the data cable was slightly dislodged and assumed that was the cause of the bad sectors.

I have all of my personal files safely stored on a seperate hard drive without windows on it, so if i carry on using my hard drive with bad sectors then if it does mess up nothing is at risk, i think

[Y2Ant]

Also i've had my PC reboot on itself and give me a blue screen of death twice before, a few months ago and a couple months before that, both times i fixed this by booting off my other win XP drive and it ran chkdisk and fixed it, which is pretty much exactly what happened this time too, so i could have had these bad sectors for months?

[Bad Company]

Yes, you could of. But bad sectors means a drive is going to die. Bad sectors usually spread as it's commonly physical damage to the drive.
Get a fresh drive and install windows on it, and them copy all your data to the new hard drive, removing your old ones that have bad sectors. That way you won't have the bottleneck of a shitty drive in your PC, and will likely have a faster, bigger drive in its place.
Hard drives are pretty cheap these days.

[Y2Ant]

Hmmmm.

Well i'm thinking of making a Ghost image of my C: drive since it doesnt really need a reformat or nothing, and I would really rather not have to re-setup all my programs and settings all over again, if I did a Ghost image of a hard drive with bad sectors, it won't affect the drive I put the image on to because its physical damage right?

I have two drives with bad sectors, a 6 month old Seagate 250GB SATA which im not even running off anymore (it was my main) that im gonna send back on warranty and get replaced, and a 2+ year old western digital IDE which im using atm, but playing WoW on it is a little laggy :(

I'll buy a smaller SATA hard drive and Ghost an image onto that I think.

[Y2Ant]

k so my new hard drive i have had for 2 days has now done the click noise, slowed down immensely and says 100% CPU usage on task manager, at first my SATA drives wouldnt even come up on BIOS when i first got them, because the power cable (its a Y splitter one) wasnt all the way in, its a real tight squeeze.

So i'm thinking its a shitty power supply or loose power cable thats causing this?

[DS]

Check all your PSU cables. Make sure they are all in there they way they should be and getting the best from them. It could be your power supply itself. Even the cooling of the hard drives.

[Y2Ant]

my IDE one runs fine with no problems, it has to be the SATA power splitter, im gonna take that and my PSU to a shop so they can be checked out =/

[Disturbed316]

Just spent about five minutes watching your sig.

[CREDO]

me too

*shoots an Ant*

yipee!